Tom Carruth’s home burned down in the Eaton Fire
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Comments (29)If you have no restrictions, the first thing I'd do, if you don't already have it, is encase the entire property with a mixed border or green space. This is to provide some privacy, shade, and noise and wind buffer. It should be wide enough so that while in leaf, the home is not easily visible from the street. Obviously that will drastically reduce your usable lawn and the amount of space you have for specimen trees but I think you'll be glad you did unless it's an urban area in which case people will think you're off your rocker. Then if you've got a sort of long driveway, I'd plant an allee of whatever. Then I'd go ahead and plant for optimizing energy efficiency. This includes planting trees for shade and also keeping a certain amount of area open for solar panel exposure. And also some open area if you grow your own vegetables or have any kind of livestock or require turfgrass for any reason. Or if you have a septic system. And if you haven't already done a utility locate, doing so will show you where your trees won't be going. If you spend some time there through some heavy rain showers you will find out if any drainage issues need to be addressed. I'd also consider planning ahead for outdoor living spaces such as patios, picnic areas, hammocks, firepit, swimming pool etc. When you get done with this, you should have a much more focused picture of where your specimens and flowering trees and other landscaping is going to go....See MoreClad SS Stock Pot Safe To Use On Open Fire?
Comments (17)Dave - Not interested in cast iron for this purpose, but I have a wonderful collection of antique cast iron cookware and it is wonderful stuff. I do not really consider this to be a huge issue - I thought this would be a simple question getting a quick answer. Now it really comes down to my having a question for which I have not found a definitive answer, and the longer I go not finding an answer makes me want to find that answer even more. You think clad steel will work fine, I have always strongly suspected it will work, others I have personally discussed this question with also think it will work, yet so far I have found no one with any expertise or product knowledge or personal experience who will definitively state that they are 100 percent positive it will work, and this has surprised me. Hopefully such an answer will arrive in my inbox soon. I am ready to seek out a metallurgist LOL. If I do not find a definitive answer then I will simply not take the chance and I will purchase non-clad stock pots, now that I found some sources of supply. If I had not found them then I would have taken the chance with clad units, but I would not have been happy about doing so until they proved out. It would also be a bummer to find out after the fact that not only would clad work fine but would work much better than what I acquired. This is why I would love to find an answer before I trigger purchase orders. I have until the end of January......See MoreBatten down the hatches
Comments (26)Good gravy, I'm so glad I don't often watch the news, and wasn't reading all of this. The wind was awful here, but as everything was still in pots waiting to be planted, I just snuggled everything up against the west-facing side of the house, and let 'em fend for themselves. Several pots got blown over, but nothing too tragic--they have all gotten to be VERY good friends, as they're all mashed up next to each other so that they can't blow around/down too much. I finally was able to get some peppers planted out yesterday--got about 40 into their containers, and staked every dang one of them except for that beauty that I got from Greg at the swap; it's back up against a wall, though... Freeze? Good thing it didn't--I was completely unprepared for it. I figured: if it freezes this late in the game, then we're all in trouble! Still, if it's cold enough to "frost" but the breeze is blowing, the moisture can't settle on the plants... at least, judging by if I have to scrape my windshield in the morning!...See Morefire!
Comments (5)Glad it wasn't any worse for you and things are back to building. Our neighbors on the property next to us on our last trip up were burning a stump the day we were leaving.They had wet the surrounding area as it smoldered and proceeded to load everyone up and leave.The wind came up and the stump re-ignighted and produced a fair size flame.I ran over and put it out.We were just about to head out ourselves when this all came down. Who knows what would have happened if we had left earlier....See MoreRelated Professionals
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